Businesses are growing exponentially in Asia – and are expected to grow even further. Traditionally seen as cost-cutting centres, the pendulum has now swung and growth opportunities for Asian Shared Services Organisations (SSOs) are endless. Rather than being a spoke in the overall SSO strategy, Asia is becoming the main hub for MNCs and global operations.

How can SSOs leverage Asia as the cornerstone for sustained regional and global growth?

Harnessing Technology And Talent To Add Value In An Increasingly Competitive Market

Given the remarkable growth of the Shared Services industry in the Philippines, it is now ever more important for SSCs to move higher up on the value chain providing services of exceeding value, while retaining their competitive advantage. After successfully implementing RPA and intelligent automation, SSCs are now looking to scale up their RPA projects, and establish governance to continue to reap the benefits of automation.

Location is key for the Shared Services & Outsourcing (SSO) industry; and Malaysia continues to be within the Top 3 preferred location for most businesses due to its multi-lingual capabilities, relatively lower costs and strong government support.

Following on from the success of last year’s summit, SSON are pleased to be hosting the 3rd Annual Business Transformation, Outsourcing and Shared Services Summit in Japan, this November. Last year, the conference successfully attracted over 260 corporates spanning across two days to discuss how Japanese companies can transform their business, grow internationally and be flexible to the ever changing Japanese macro and micro economic environment.

Bridging service gaps, ensuring ROI on technology initiatives and moving up the value chain

Shared Services & Business Outsourcing Week India taking place on the 3-4 December 2013, Gurgaon India will give you an in-depth analysis of the opportunities and challenges in the Indian Outsourcing industry.

In addition, the event will discuss strategies for shared services centers and BPO’s to move up the value chain, domestic outsourcing for Indian companies and infrastructure and talent sourcing while setting up services center in tier 2 Indian cities.

2013 marks the 16th year that Shared Services and Outsourcing Week has been held in Asia, with the collaboration of some of the best minds in this space.

This year, the summit will cover the five key pillars of SSO namely: talent management, creating an agile cost effective operations structure, innovation in end-to-end process and value-added service – all bearing in mind the volatile macroeconomics of the Asian landscape.

The world of work is changing globally. Many organizations are investing in HR Technologies to increase organizational efficiencies. Asia Pacific is no exception to this growing trend, and even more due to the market growth and emerging nations.

Whilst highly established vendors becoming more competitive in providing greater solutions and maximum ROI on the organizations' investments and constantly re-inventing itself to meet the changing expectations, the newly developed technology vendors will always have their place in the market share.